There are many tutorials on how to get started with the Redux pattern in Angular 2, and how to use its essential concepts like store or effects. But often you'll find that those tutorials don't work for you -- maybe the author omitted something that was self-explanatory to them, or maybe (and that's a fact) Redux-related packages in npm change so often that the code in the tutorials from a few months ago does not compile anymore. So let's throw in another tutorial that will be obsolete just as soon, shall we?

October 1, 2003 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he signed copies of his latest book "Quicksilver", the first book in "The Baroque Cycle" trilogy, and answered audience's questions. Below is an approximate transcript of his talk. Due to the poor quality of the tape recording it was hard to pick out the exact words that were said, so I can't guarantee the accuracy of either audience's questions or Neal Stephenson's answers. The places I couldn't hear I paraphrased the best I could.

One of the most remarkable things about this interview is that Neal Stephenson introduced the audience to the word "steampunk" and had to assure them he didn't make it up. Who could have guessed that in a few years steampunk jewelry will be sold at Walmart!

(* if you have both Python 2 and Python 3 on your machine. If you only have Python 3, you probably don't need this article.)

I wanted to install Python 3 on Windows 10, and use it in a virtualenv. Eventually I wanted to get my Flask web application to run on Python 3.

The steps for that are not too difficult, but there are a few gotchas along the way. And you know what that means, Gentle Reader. It means that when I have to do it again -- let's say, months from now -- I will have to hunt down the solutions to all the gotchas again. So I decided to take lessons from the past and write it all down. And share it with those of you who don't want waste time hunting down the answers. So, this is what I did.

Let's say you are an ordinary developer, not a wizard at administrating the Apache server. You are looking for a place to host your side project, a Flask application (Flask is a Python web framework). To have the most control at only a small price, you provision a cloud server at your friendly cloud hosting company (Dreamhost, in my case). Perhaps you were not satisfied with free hosting sites, because they give you so little computing power that you quickly max out your available database connections. And so you decide to run it on your own server.

Just to be clear, this article does not deal with production-caliber Flask applications. It describes a minimal, very basic deployment options for simple applications such as your side projects or hobby projects. It does not address, for example, Python virtualenv. Maybe in the future.

Tooltips are a useful thing. Just last year, as a volunteer web developer, I built an event website for a nonprofit. The website had a page with the event program grid. The event had several parallel tracks, each of them jam-packed of back-to-back panels, and each panel had several panelists. Understandably, the web page real estate was at a premium, and the page for the panel grid listed the participants by only their last name. No other info.

On March 7, 2005 Brian Greene, a string theorist and author of "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of The Cosmos", gave an interview at a Barnes & Noble in Austin. He was interviewed by Jeff Salomon from Austin-American Statesman and took questions from the audience.

The talk also revealed some things you would not immediately think of Brian Greene. By his own admission, he finds physics hard and visualisation helps him enormously to understand physics concepts. That's one reason why he never condescends to his audience. (Another may be that he is simply a nice person.) Also, did you know that Brian Greene's books can cause people to quit drinking and start reading?

Note: I could not hear everything that was said or write it down verbatim, so I paraphrased some places the best I could. Most of them are in angle brackets.

My impression of Evernote API documentation is that it is not very friendly to Python beginners, and rather short on examples. So I wrote this document on how to write a simple script that will get notes from a notebook.